Rather less dialog? Not for Austin Butler and Vanessa Hudgens, who've persisted to talk about each other following their 2020 breakup.
Though the Elvis star and the High School Musical actress didn’t waste time moving on — Butler has been courting Kaia Gerber since December 2021, while Us Weekly confirmed Hudgens’ engagement to Cole Tucker in January 2023 — the former pair have paid tribute to their past romance (and each other).
In September 2022 — two years after Us confirmed the pair had split — the Broadway alum called her relationship with Butler “life-changing.”
“The public only sees such a lot,” Hudgens advised Nylon at the time, relating to her romances with Butler and Zac Efron. (Hudgens and Efron dated from 2006 to 2010.) “I’ve additionally been through two very lengthy life-changing relationships, and nobody in point of fact is aware of what took place except for me. When I write my memoir, it’ll be amazing.”
Included in that memoir is also the story of how Butler used to be inspired to play the function of Elvis Presley, for which he gained a 2023 Golden Globe. While declining to mention Hudgens by title, the Zoey 101 alum informed the story of how a “good friend” inspired him to portray the rock ’n roll icon in a nearly word-for-word retelling of the model Hudgens revealed in 2019.
“The month earlier than I heard that Baz [Luhrmann] was once making the movie, I used to be going to look at Christmas lights with a pal, and there used to be an Elvis Christmas music at the radio and I was making a song alongside, and my pal seemed over at me and is going, ‘You’ve got to play Elvis.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s any such long shot,’” the Carrie Diaries alum published to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Actors Roundtable in January 2023. “A couple of weeks later, I used to be playing the piano. I by no means really sang for any of my buddies or anything else. That same pal was there and I was playing the piano. She stated, ‘I’m serious. You gotta determine how you'll be able to get the rights to a script.’ Then my agent known as and stated, ‘So, Baz Luhrmann is making an Elvis film.’”
Four years prior, whilst gushing about her then-boyfriend on Live With Kelly and Ryan, the Rent: Live celebrity instructed the cohosts how she and Butler “had been using along and we have been paying attention to Christmas track, after which an Elvis Presley Christmas song got here on.”
Hudgens recalled: “He had simply dyed his hair dark — he’s a natural blonde — and I used to be taking a look at him and he used to be singing along and I was like, ‘Babe, you need to play Elvis.’”
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Butler, for his part, gave credit where credit was once due in a later interview with the Los Angeles Times, referring to the “pal” he first mentioned as his “partner on the time.” He added: “We’d been in combination for so long and he or she had this sort of clairvoyant moment and so I in reality — I owe her a lot for believing in me.”
Keep scrolling for the whole thing Hudgens and Butler have stated about each other post-split:
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